Category Archives: Racism

In what has been explained away as the unfortunate result of a hacking and a liberal conspiracy, the chairwoman of the Yellowstone County Republican Central Committee who posted an image of a racist stereotype on her Facebook page, Jennifer Olsen, appears to be in good company on the executive board. Brian Kenat, Congressional Committeeman for the YCRCC, also enjoys inflammatory posts. His bigotry isn’t confined to blacks though, he also hates the LGBT community, women in general, overweight people, the media, academia, immigrants, and of course, liberals. Before you call him a racist though, let me remind you, he recently attended a party to celebrate Black History Month and suggested that the YCRCC donate to a black charity in reparation for Olsen’s alleged racist post.

For those of you who haven’t been following this story, I’ve been accused of hacking into Olsen’s computer to post the offensive watermelon trap image, conspiring with liberals to discredit her, and actually photoshopping a fake image so it APPEARS to have been shared by Jennifer, when in reality, it wasn’t. A more plausible defense would have been “I made a mistake and I am sorry.,” but instead, the embattled GOP chairwoman invented ridiculous story after ridiculous story ranging from “Facebook discovered Jennifer was hacked by someone in Pennsylvania” to “Facebook has shut down two profiles in New Jersey who were impersonating me.” She’s claimed to have received at least 5 death threats. Oddly, no police are investigating the hacking or the death threats.

The Yellowstone County Republican Central Committee does not apparently believe it is harboring any racists on its board. The organization isn’t yet willing to ask Olsen to resign as they believe an investigation will fully vindicate her. So I ask you, Yellowstone County Republicans, to PLEASE consider running in the next YCRCC election to replace the nasty people on this board. I honestly do not believe that Republicans are inherently racist and it disgusts me that people of this quality are publicly representing us. Our party was founded on abolishing slavery. These bigots do NOT represent us! To those of you dismissing this as a catfight or the result of two ladies having a “falling out,” think again. Anyone who makes such claims has no idea who I am and what I represent. Call me names, laugh at me, I don’t care. Lie about me and we are going to have problems….. but, an apology goes a long way. I don’t hold a grudge.

Anyway, here’s a brief look into Tea person/Congressional Committeeman of the Yellowstone County Republican Central Committee, Brian Kenat’s views on homosexuality. In the following screenshots, Kenat compares “choosing” homosexuality to choosing to be a bitch or an asshole. He goes on to declare that if his daughter was gay, he would first pray that she outgrew the “phase”. If she didn’t, he would accept it, but would likely choose to give his estate to a suitable charity instead of her, his sole heir. In the third screenshot, Kenat claims that all of the gay people he knows who have “chosen that lifestyle” (which means all of them since he believes homosexuality is a “choice of behavior”, are drugged-up, overgrown children, and irresponsible drama queens. Kenat “jokes” about bringing hollow bullets and wearing Kevlar as he rolls around LoDo with homosexuals. He’s also an expert on the differences between homosexual and bisexual ladies.

Kenat implies that if his daughter, his sole heir, was gay, he would give his estate to a charity.

“Tongue in cheek” or not, a series of absolutely appalling comments

All of the homosexuals Kenat knows are drugged-up, irresponsible drama queens.

Kenat is an expert on sexuality

How does Kenat feel about brown people? First of all, he doesn’t understand how posting a watermelon trap to catch President Obama (who he lovingly refers to on his Facebook page as “Hussein”) is perpetuating a racist stereotype. I found it only a little odd that he was debating whether or not the post was racist as Jennifer claimed she didn’t post it. Why are we debating its merits if she didn’t post it anyway? Even Olsen must have believed it was racist or she wouldn’t have invented a crazy story to explain why it appeared on her page. But I digress. Kenat respects the President enough to “spit on him” and he believes dressing as the President (complete with massive toothy grin) is a perfectly lovely idea. He also posted horrific racist commentary by a CBC commentator which was “liked” by fellow YCRCC state committeewoman Amy Hanson and Tim Ravndal, the Tea Party leader forced to resign after making comments insensitive (an understatement) to homosexuals, found the commentary “too entertaining”.

If you haven’t seen enough to convince you yet, the following screenshots are evidence of his hatred of…. well, basically everything.

Kenat thinks overweight people are lazy.

We’ve probably all made a few gaffes in our lives, myself included. Owning up to them and improving ourselves separates us from those who refuse to accept responsibility and blame others. It is time for the YCRCC to clean house. And stop blaming me!

In response to continued allegations that montanafesto photoshopped the screenshot of Jennifer Olsen’s racist post, I felt the need to provide the entire screenshot for public perusal. It is my position that the racist post was Jennifer Olsen’s and that the person who provided it to me as well as the names and photos of his/her friends are irrelevant to the story. The names and personal details have thus been blacklined to protect the innocent. I am not an image expert but its legitimacy was never in question for me or I wouldn’t have posted the image.

I am utterly disappointed that Olsen has continued to lie about her actions. To those who have suggested that I created an impostor profile of her to discredit her- after a burst of laughter- I say the words “Don’t flatter yourself.”. I am very busy, as evidenced by the lack of blog posts the last year. I would never do such a thing even if I had the time. Anyway, take a look. And then, PLEASE, stop defending her. Stop embarrassing the Republican Party, we have a big election to win next year.

Amid accounts that the Yellowstone County Republican Central Committee (!warning! aesthetically obnoxious webpage design) has been reported to the Southern Poverty Law Center for consideration as a hate group as long as Jennifer Olsen is the chairwoman, it occurred to me that Olsen may soon be looking for political work in other states. I briefly considered that the Ku Klux Klan was perhaps hiring but soon discovered this. That’s right…. the KKK is now under Christian leadership and is hoping to shed its racist reputation. Shucks. The KKK’s membership is down while other hate groups are enjoying tremendous growth. One has to wonder if the Klan members were simply absorbed into the Tea Party or even (gasp!) the GOP.

Olsen, the embattled Chairwoman of the Yellowstone County Republicans and co-founder of Montana Shrugged, TEA Party Patriots, managed to attract quite a lot of media attention after posting a racist photo shortly after she was honored in the Billings Gazette‘s “40 Under 40″ segment recognizing Yellowstone County’s upstanding twenty and thirty-somethings. The photo, which depicted a watermelon trap designed to catch President Obama appears to have trapped none other than Olsen herself. Montanafesto posted a link to the Yellowstone County Republicans Facebook page and officers of the group almost immediately defended the racist post and projected allegations on to the author of the post. It appears that breaking the sacred “11th Commandment” is an offense more egregious than overt bigotry. Screenshots below.

Even a former Montana legislator (Rep. James Knox (R), HD 47) disagreed that the post was racist and alleged that I instead was the racist.

A Yellowstone County Republican Central Committeeman forwarded a board member of the YCRCC several links depicting the GOP in a negative light. His response was “It seems they are linking it more to TEA party and not GOP. ” Apparently that excuses the gaffe.

According to the editor of Billings Blog, in response to a question emailed by one of the Billings Outpost’s journalists, Jennifer’s response included the following (note, all grammatical errors hers).

“The blog posting this about me is all fabricated. This is not the first time they have made up stories about me as writer, nicole french, and I had a falling out a few years ago and since then she writes this nonsense.
“Liberals always try to take our focus away from real issues by doing things like this. It is absolutely not true.”

So there you have it. It is the fault of liberals. Problem is, montanafesto isn’t liberal.

For those of you who have missed some of the attention our resident racist has attracted, I’ve compiled just a taste of the negative exposure Montana is receiving as a result.

Olsen is apparently hiding something as she also changed the privacy settings of the Yellowstone County Republicans from “open” to “secret”.

And since we are discussing bigotry, the following reading material was delivered to each Montana legislator this morning just in time for a House Judiciary Hearing on whether to repeal Montana’s archaic and unconstitutional law making homosexual sex a felony punishable by a decade in prison. Perhaps the hateful YCRCC is responsible, or perhaps not. I have a sneaking suspicion that the culprit is not a Democrat.

Before anyone comments (again) that a watermelon under a cardboard box intended to trap the President is not racist, I invite you to peruse this link. To disagree with a President’s policies is inherently American but to poke fun at his color using well-known racist stereotypes makes us all look bad. Montana Republicans deserve an apology from Jennifer Olsen. I won’t hold my breath. I would like to think that perhaps this happened because Ms. Olsen is naive about social media, but the following screenshot taken from the Yellowstone Republican Women’s Facebook page suggests otherwise, Olsen claims to be the organization’s “media guru”.

I wasn’t prepared to be called a lazy pothead, drug dealer, shameless liar, a failure of a person, unapologetically divisive, or (drum roll please) a Democrat for exposing a political figure as a bigot. I’m offended.

If you too are offended and embarrassed by the racism displayed by this group through its chairperson and other officers, contact Jennifer Olsen at 406-672-1170 or email jolsen@augustenergy.net. Her Facebook account has reportedly been deactivated but the url is http://facebook.com/noczars and her Twitter account is @oilpatchkid. Tell your legislators, the Montana GOP, the YCRCC, The Billings Gazette, The Dickinson Press and the world that Montana is intolerant of bigotry.

Jennifer Olsen, a petroleum engineer who was unemployed for years while the oil and gas industry was booming around her was recently honored in the Billings Gazette’s annual “40 under 40″ segment. The newspaper lists her many jobs, never mentioning that each employer was actually her father (Eric Olsen) and the companies were often idle due to “government oppression” or some other excuse Jennifer and Eric Olsen used while soliciting donations to progress their political agenda. During their long period of unemployment, Jennifer and her father founded Montana Shrugged, a “tea party” group that advocates selective federalism and operates in a divisive and dishonest manner. Jennifer Olsen also holds the chairwoman position on the Yellowstone County Republican Central Committee. In her free time, she files frivolous and unfounded political practices complaints and apparently scours the internet searching for racist anti-Obama material.

My disdain for the Olsen family is obvious. Posts like the one captured in the following screenshot from Jennifer Olsen’s Facebook page today are why.

Thanks to the first amendment, Americans are able to think whatever they would like as well as express those thoughts, but such expression does has consequences. I discourage Yellowstone County Republican precinct chairs and legislators from turning a blind eye to this blatantly racist post. If Ms Olsen is not held responsible for her actions, we send a message that this behavior is acceptable and perhaps these views are even condoned by the GOP. The Republican Party was founded on abolishing slavery. Why do we now tolerate our leaders advocating bigotry in a public forum? Bigotry is rooted in ignorance and the Republican Party should purge this cancer from the party. Shame on you, Jennifer Olsen. You are a disgrace to your party, to the central committee you chair, to Montana, and to America.

UPDATE: According to David Crisp of Billings Blog, in a question post by a Billings Outpost freelancer, Jennifer Olsen responded as follows:

“The blog posting this about me is all fabricated. This is not the first time they have made up stories about me as writer, nicole french, and I had a falling out a few years ago and since then she writes this nonsense.
“Liberals always try to take our focus away from real issues by doing things like this. It is absolutely not true.”